SMART VILLAGES: ENERGY AS A CATALYST TO HOLISTIC RURAL ...

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SMART VILLAGES: ENERGY AS A

CATALYST TO HOLISTIC RURAL

DEVELOPMENT

June 2017 – ACEF2017

Dr Bernie Jones

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OUTLINE OF

PRESENTATION

• Why Smart is smart

• Nexus findings in Asia

• Novel nexus issues

• Learning from outside Asia

• The future

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SMART VILLAGES

SMART CITIES

47% of world’s

population and

70% of the world’s

poor live in rural

villages

Technological

advances

Game

changing

innovations

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REGIONAL

ENGAGEMENT

• Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Korea, Malaysia

• Impact studies in Borneo

• Scale-up competition in India

• Student poster competition in Pakistan

• Addressing disaster resilience, cookstoves, island energy needs, energy-water-sanitation, energy-agriculture, energy-health and education, business models, innovative technologies etc.

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NEXUS: AGRICULTURE

• No-brainer!

• Relevance to increased output,

efficiency, and value

• Strong interaction w other nexi

• Village entrepreneurship

• Novel business models

• Affordable finance, awareness

• Innovations, esp ICT, for precision

ag, markets

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NEXUS: WATER

• Lower profile

• Connection to agric: waste and

water pump

• Initiatives highly fragmented –

energy link seldom made explicitly

• Potential for entrepreneurship and

sustainability lower, unless WAAS,

agric or cooking connection

• Water quality monitoring

• Women & children key

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NEXUS: HEALTH

• Lack of reliable data. In Africa, c

25% health facilities w/o power

• Evidence of impact difficult

• General clinic electrification

• Improve tools for practitioners

• Record-keeping

• Lighting/cold storage/sterilisation

• Innovations, esp ICT, remote

diagnostics, telehealth

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NEXUS: EDUCATION

• 30% of children attend schools not

connected to any sort of electricity

• Energy can play a role, but only one of

many challenges

• Support teachers, not replace them

• Significant training needs for teachers

• Bottom-up localised approach needed

• Support teachers’/school sustainability

• Innovations: adult education, local

servers, tool for community/cultural

interaction

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NEXUS: RESILIENCE

• Combination of decentralised

infrastructure and innovative

service provision

• Natural or socio-economic shocks

• Build social capital, accumulated

assets and everyday resilience

• Traditional knowledge and

environmental stewardship

• Appropriate, “hardened” tech

• ICT: early warning & recovery

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NEXUS NOVELTIES

• Democratic Engagement

• Informed voters

• Rural voice

• Direct democracy

• Rights education

• Community engagement/media

• Migration

• Rural to Urban

• Urban to Rural

• International

• Flexibility

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MORE NEXUS ISSUES

• Energy & finance/banking

• Energy & connectivity

• Energy & IDPs

• Energy & transport

• Energy & conflict

• Energy & religion

• Energy & biodiversity

• Energy & indigenous knowledge

• Energy & culture

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GLOBAL INSIGHTS

• Mobile money & integration

• Weather & crop insurance

• AWE, reverse osmosis, UV leds

• Early warning for epidemics

• E-health and smartphones

• “Loaded tablet” experiment

• Places without teachers

• School of the Air

• Back-application of resilience

• Internet businesses

• Community mobile networks

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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS

• Focus has been on access rather than use or “smartness”

• Promote holistic approach with common policies & strategies

• Bottom-up community-led models

• Innovative financing for community services

• Very last mile challenges

• Need model/pilot implementations

• Build awareness & capacity

• Need impact studies and data

• Need to encourage new

technology partners to enter field

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Thank you for your attention

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